The recommended way to start a Vite-powered Vue project
npm init vue@3
Or, if you need to support IE11, you can create a Vue 2 project with:
npm init vue@2
Note that the version number (@3
or @2
) MUST NOT be omitted, otherwise npm
may resolve to a cached and outdated version of the package.
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Vue CLI is based on webpack, while
create-vue
is based on Vite. Vite supports most of the configured conventions found in Vue CLI projects out of the box, and provides a significantly better development experience due to its extremely fast startup and hot-module replacement speed. Learn more about why we recommend Vite over webpack here. -
Unlike Vue CLI,
create-vue
itself is just a scaffolding tool: it creates a pre-configured project base on the features you choose, and delegates the rest to Vite. Projects scaffolded this way can directly leverage the Vite plugin ecosystem which is Rollup-compatible.